We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. But these positive effects depended on what type of plan employees used and how many interruptions or disruptions they faced in their day-to-day work. Research Shows a Simple Way to Increase Your Engagement at Work – […]
#52books The NeoGeneralist
#52Books The Neo-Generalist: Where You Go Is Who You Are Format: Kindle I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I am thrilled that Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin have described my experience. People know me as someone who has many interests and tends to deep-dive when I decide to learn something. […]
School of the Possible – Meaningful Flow Lab
I have put together a proposed lab for The School of the Possible. This is a project spearheaded by Dave Gray. He’s doing something deeply personal that resonated with me. I want to help. This initiative also provided an opportunity for me to get clear on what I am doing with my new service – […]
Reskilling
The World Economic Forum recently started publishing a series of resources around the changes in the workplace and how to reskill the workforce. Organizations are complaining that they “cannot find the right skills.” Individuals, many of whom have been working to master certain knowledge and skills for years, find themselves with outdated knowledge and skills […]
#52books The Hero with a Thousand Faces
View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2w1lOEE ———– #52Books – The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Format: Audiobook For Christmas during my freshman year at Virginia Tech, my father gave me a copy of The Power of Myth. “Wendy, you might not understand this right now – but keep revisiting it.” Joseph […]
Communicating Complex Ideas
I love Wait But Why. Well-researched. Well-written. Random topics. Tim Urban writes about whatever catches his fancy and uses his blog as an opportunity to research whatever catches his fancy. In an interview with First Round – Urban talks about how he approaches complex ideas. Urban’s first step is to place the topic in his […]
#52books The Start-Up J Curve
#52 Books – The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success (Amazon affiliate link) Format: Kindle Since I started Middle Curve, I’ve been struck by how much noise there is in the entrepreneurial space. All the things one “must do to succeed.” It’s overwhelming. Howard Love has created a map. And he is […]
Thoughts on Priorities
I’m writing this in a hotel room outside Cocoa, Florida. Mom and I drove 16+ hours (not all at once, thankfully) so we could be with family and mourn my Aunt Barbara’s passing. This was one of the sudden ones and, for me, it wasn’t until the funeral that I realized that she was gone. […]
My Why
This is the original TED talk for Start with Why. If you have not seen this before, it is worth 20 minutes of your time. Before I left my last job, I watched many highly skilled employees drop out. These are the types of folks that employers say they want – intrinsically motivated, hard-working, […]
#52books The Art of Living
View on Instagram http://ift.tt/2Hp3DdF ————- #52 books – Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness Format: Kindle It’s been awhile since I have studied Ancient Greek philosophy. When I was studying it, as part of my graduate studies in History, we didn’t spend much time on the Stoics. Much of my […]
